Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Sport Language Per Se -- 1 Sportswomanship: The Cultural Acceptance of Sport for Women versus the Accommodation of Cultured Women in Sport -- 2 Language, Gender, and Sport: A Review of the Research Literature -- 3 "Throw Like a Girl" Doesn't Mean What It Used To: Research on Gender, Language, and Power -- Part II: Historical Perspectives -- 4 "A Glow of Pleasurable Excitement": Images of the New Athletic Woman in American Popular Culture, 1880-1920 -- 5 A Woman in a Man's World: "Annie Laurie," One of America's First Sportswriters -- 6 White Sauvage-ry: Revisiting the Collegians and Coeds of Old Siwash College -- Part III: Print Media Representations -- 7 She Got Game, but She Don't Got Fame -- 8 Strong Enough to be a Man, but Made a Woman: Discourses on Sport and Femininity in Sports Illustrated for Women -- 9 Running a Different Race: The Rhetoric of "Women's-Only" Content in Runner's World -- 10 Exercising Control: Empowerment and the Fitness Discourse -- 11 Minimizing the Maxim Model? Interpreting the Sexual Body Rhetoric of Teenage Moms through Physical Education -- Part IV: Broadcast Media Representations -- 12 Television and Aerobic Sport: Empowerment and Patriarchy in Denise Austin's Daily Workouts -- 13 We Don't Glow, We Sweat: The Ever Changing Commentary about Women's Athletics -- Part V: Visual Media Representations -- 14 Game Face: Sports Reporters' Use of Sexualized Language in Coverage of Women's Professional Tennis -- 15 The Vamp, the Homebody, and the Upstart: Women and the Language of Baseball Films -- 16 Britney, the Body and the Blurring of Popular Cultures: A Case Study of Music Videos, Gender, a Transcendent Celebrity, and Health Issues -- Part VI Classic Case Studies -- 17 NASCAR's Boy Wonder: Jeff Gordon as Ambivalent Sex Symbol in a Macho Subculture.

18 "Hey, I'm the Coach's Wife, not the Team Mom": The Rhetoric of Little League Mothers' Role Performances -- 19 "Man-On": The Culture of Girls' Soccer -- 20 The Making of the Perfect Sacrifice: A Rhetorical Analysis of Football Coaches' Descriptions of their Wives -- 21 GirlSpeak: Adolescent Females Talk about their Athletic Identities -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations contains 21 wide-ranging chapters examining sport vis-à-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena.

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